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Vaandeldragers met wapens van Habsburg en de paus van Rome, plaat I

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Vaandeldragers met wapens van Habsburg en de paus van Rome, plaat I

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The name Habsburg takes its name from Habsburg Castle, built in 1020 in present-day Switzerland. The House of Habsburg was one of the most influential royal houses of Europe. It occupied Holy Roman Empire throne between 1438 and 1740. It included emperors and kings of Bohemia, England, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Second Mexican Empire, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. In the sixteenth century, the dynasty was split between its Austrian and Spanish branches. The House ended in the 18th century. The Spanish branch ended upon the death of Charles II of Spain in 1700 and was replaced by the House of Bourbon. The Austrian branch became extinct with the death of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1740 and with the death of his daughter Maria Theresa of Austria in 1780. The successor House of Lorraine styled itself formally as the House of Habsburg-Lothringen, and still referred to as the House of Habsburg and ruled until 1918.

Renaissance representation of classical ruins was a symbol of antiquity, enlightenment, and lost knowledge. Ruins spoke to the passage of time. The greatest subject for ruin artists was the overgrown and crumbling Classical Rome remains. Forum and the Colosseum, Pantheon, and the Appian Way. Initially, art representations of Rome were realistic, but soon the imagination of artists took flight. Roman ruins were scattered around the city, but frustrated artists began placing them in more pleasing arrangements. Capriccio was a style of imaginary scenes of buildings and ruins.

Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.

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